Talk:List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat

Unreliable Data - Data Not Current
I found an error in this list. I had only checked three entries, but one of them, that for Charlton Jimerson, shows that he only had one career home run. The Baseball Cube says that he had two, one with Houston in the NL in 2006 and one with Seattle in the AL in 2007. I presume this error is because the list is not updated for "active players," but there have been numerous additions since 2007.-- Komowkwa (talk) 04:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Mitch Lyden is not listed as one who homered on the first pitch, but I distinctly remember announcer Steve Stone (Lyden homered against the Cubs) saying it was the first pitch. BubbleDine (talk) 13:27, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Worse still: Bobby Bonds (the first one) isn't on the list, and he opened his career with a grand slam! BSVulturis (talk) 21:55, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Notability?
Is this page truly notable? I took it for granted for a while, but lately I'm wondering. It seems to be a WP:TRIVIAl aspect of their careers and the page doesn't reflect the necessary sourcing to show this is an encyclopedic breakdown of MLB players. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Two sources, unable to edit at this time:

http://gutenberg.us/articles/list_of_major_league_baseball_players_with_a_home_run_in_their_first_major_league_at_bat

As to notability, perhaps reference number of page views?Ststeve11 (talk) 14:34, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Both of these sources clearly identify themselves as wikipedia mirrors, and may not be used. Kuru   (talk)  15:38, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * redacted the omics ref. predatory publisher, not reliable. Jytdog (talk) 19:39, 18 November 2017 (UTC)


 * just wanted your input. Would you still be of the opinion that this topic lacks notability and falls more under WP:TRIVIA? (in light of my edit to this list a couple of hours ago, attempting to make this an FL) —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:04, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm not sure, and it should probably be left to an unbiased reviewer to determine. You did good work on the page, and there are lots of sources, but the trouble is that most of them are stats pages and game recaps. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Stechschulte - first at bat - MLB.com
There's a statement with no inline citation about MLB.com and Gene Stechschulte's first MLB at bat (footnote J right now). This must have been corrected by MLB.com recently. MLB.com game logs (under Batting) show the subject's first AB on April 17, 2001. I just wanted to make sure that the footnote was not referring to some other place on MLB.com. Larry Hockett (Talk) 14:47, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * The footnote was actually referring to this article from MLB.com. It was indeed last updated on July 27, 2020, but still states that Stechschulte's first AB occurred on April 1, 2001. —Bloom6132 (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2020 (UTC)


 * It seems like a good point to clarify. With this many citations and footnotes, surely we can spare one more line to indicate that it is just one MLB.com article - and not the subject's MLB.com listing - that is incorrect. We should also correct the grammar ("list") in the the footnote. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Fixed. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:20, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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